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...they are suffering substantial casualties. Women troops make up nearly 15% of active-duty service members. Since 2003, 48 women have died in Iraq--just 2% of the total number of U.S. troops killed but far more than the 8 nurses killed out of 7,500 servicewomen in the Vietnam War. Three hundred have been wounded in Iraq. Few female troops are out of the line of fire. While military police patrol Baghdad with Iraqi cops who skirmish almost daily with insurgents, women clerks and cooks inside U.S. camps are vulnerable to rocket and mortar attacks by militants. Such hazards...
...Cheney is too old to be a baby boomer, but his five draft deferments during the Vietnam War make him an honorary member of the tribe, as does his infamous explanation of why he didn't fight: "I had other priorities." The failure to serve-and the relative safety and affluence of our upbringing-has been a defining quality of so many baby boomers who have come to political power, and there have been consequences. Bill Clinton often seemed daunted and uncertain in his dealings with the military. Bush and Cheney have been the opposite. They rushed...
...shot my friend. I've never experienced anything quite like that before." It was perhaps the most eloquent, emotionally unguarded moment from the notoriously buttoned-up Vice President. He seemed stunned, uncertain for once. And the haunted look in his eyes reminded me of what soldiers in Vietnam used to call the Thousand-Yard Stare-the paralytic shock that comes from seeing the impact that even low-caliber weaponry can have on human flesh...
...Cheney's the sort of guy who thinks in terms of black and white," former Senator Bob Kerrey, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, said. "But now he's used a weapon the way a soldier often does, with unexpected results that come in shades of gray. Maybe now he'll have a better sense of what he has sent our troops...
...Faced with Hulett’s guilty plea, Judge Cashman—a Vietnam War veteran and former prosecutor known for handing down harsh sentences from the bench—found himself up against a classic dilemma: seek rehabilitation or settle for retribution. In this case, a bizarre twist in Vermont law made the choice particularly stark. Because Hulett was classified as “low risk” by the state corrections department, he would be ineligible to receive mental health treatment in a traditional prison. To get Hulett into a treatment program, Judge Cashman had to keep...